More islands disappearing due to global warming.

[spidey07]

this just in! hawaiian island gets bigger! global warming has been reversed!

LOL! It's runny because it's true. But sadly you'll hear the "Hawaii getting larger due to global warming..err...climate change!"

 

[Fingolfin269]

Higher world temps = polar ice caps melting at alarming rate = rising sea levels = no more islands. :'(

You know what's truly alarming? The use of the word 'alarming'.

 

[SunnyD]

That was mother nature saying, "Fuck it bitches. You can't decide who gets it? I'm talking it back."

 

[Fear No Evil]

Obama already has the solution to this. Cap and tax. Island will be back shortly.

 

[OCGuy]

I'm going to go idle my F150 in the driveway until the Bay Area is under water.

 

[zinfamous]

Things have happened since the end of the ice age, yes.

Oh, I think things were happening before that, too. But that's just a guess. Please don't quote me on that.

 

[zinfamous]

I'm going to go idle my F150 in the driveway until the Bay Area is under water.

Bay Area > OC.

This is true.

:awe:

 

[zinfamous]

White guilt amazes me.

what kind of guilt do Koreans suffer from?

 

[OCGuy]

Bay Area > OC.

This is true.

:awe:

Yes, you are correct.

Your chances of being stabbed to death are greater in Oakland.

Your chances of tripping on a homeless person doing heroin are greater in San Fran.

Your chances of being bored to death are greater in San Jose.


Bay Area really is > OC!

 

[Newbian]

So if someone owned that island does that area in the ocean become private property...

 

[joesmoke]

more victims of the sub-prime island mortgage crisis...

 

[dennilfloss]

Higher world temps = polar ice caps melting at alarming rate = rising sea levels = no more islands. :'(

That's assuming the seafloor remained at the same height. For example: eustasy vs isostasy in formerly glaciated regions, subsidence, etc...

 

[sdifox]

All I want to know is when Toronto will be underwater. Need some head-start time to build the ark.

 

[Jeff7]

In Schwarzenegger from Running Man voice: "New Moore Island? Now just NO Moore Island!"

:hmm:


:awe:

 

[HeXen]

global warming has occurred all throughout ancient history. In the Triassic era, i think it was, Kansas was completely under water and there were hardly no arctic glaciers........wow

of course, now when it happens its because of our pollutants, maybe more people will start re watching Water World movie now.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Higher world temps = polar ice caps melting at alarming rate = rising sea levels = no more islands. :'(

What high world temps? We've been through this already in that the data produced by the "scientists" was cherry picked and weather station temperature readings from colder climates were omitted from the formulas to produce "global averages".

The main Hawaiin island is getting shorter. It's own weight is causing it to sink into the sea floor. How do we know that isn't what happened in this story?

But as said, you can't tax nature, but you can tax made up disasters.

 

[zinfamous]

Yes, you are correct.

Your chances of being stabbed to death are greater in Oakland.

Your chances of tripping on a homeless person doing heroin are greater in San Fran.

Your chances of being bored to death are greater in San Jose.


Bay Area really is > OC!

:awe:

San Jose is certainly boring. I never go. but SF + Berk + Oak are better than your suburban shithole. (dodging bullets and sharp edges is exciting).

Also, Muir *, Half Moon Bay, Pt Reyes, various Redwoods > concrete.

Also, Napa + Sonoma > ....nothing? Santa Barbara? yeah, whatever... have fun with your mudslides and fires.

 

[Numenorean]

So for 30 years they were arguing about an "island" which (30 years ago, according to their figures) at the highest elevation was only 4.4 inches above sea level? Really?


Oh, and I'm sure that erosion had nothing to do with it either. Certainly there were not waves constantly eating away at the meager 4.4 inches of land.

 

[SpanishFry]

So for 30 years they were arguing about an "island" which (30 years ago, according to their figures) at the highest elevation was only 4.4 inches above sea level? Really?


Oh, and I'm sure that erosion had nothing to do with it either. Certainly there were not waves constantly eating away at the meager 4.4 inches of land.

4.4 inches? that's it?

seems like the only point of the article was to scare people about the looming dangers of climate change.

 

[Numenorean]

4.4 inches? that's it?

seems like the only point of the article was to scare people about the looming dangers of climate change.

They said 30 years. During the first 20 it rose an average .12 inches per year so that's 2.4 inches in 20 years. The last decade it said .2 inches per year. So in those 10 years that's 2 inches. 4.4 inches it rose in 30 years and the island is now gone?

Seems to me that waves would be continually flooding (and therefore eroding) the island. And of course it's the point to make people all scared about "global warming".

 

[OCGuy]

4.4 inches? that's it?

Hey, I may not bottom out, but at least i'm hittin' the sides!

 

[foghorn67]

Oh, I think things were happening before that, too. But that's just a guess. Please don't quote me on that.

That would be fringe science. :awe:

 

[NeoV]

the idiocy force is out, even in non P&N threads....

 

[Train]

Guess it all depends on which baseline that they use to measure sea level.

If you use Mt. Everest, the sea level drops 2.4 inches per year.

 

[dmcowen674]

More islands disappearing due to global warming.

No way, can't be true because the AT experts say it's not happening.